Villon, Jacques

The French painter and printmaker Jacques Villon (born Émile Gaston Duchamp), who joined the Parisian Cubists in 1911 on the advice of his brother Marcel Duchamp, is considered the "Impressionist among the Cubists". The sensitive arrangement of color fields in his portraits are a constant attempt to give the interior - the essence - of a person the same space as the visible. Villon, who achieved fame late in life, received numerous prizes and honors, for example at the Venice Biennale in 1956.